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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Another Tough Report from A Carrier - Schneider Has Tough Q32019

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The freight recession is real and the carriers are feeling the pain.  We know the smaller carriers are truly suffering however today Schneid...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Mike Welch - A Legend Passes On

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It took me a few days to even think about a world without Mike Welch.  Mike was truly a special man.  He was special not in a flashy way ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

What Have The Tariffs Taught us About Supply Chain?

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This is not a political or even an economic posting relative to the tariffs and the current "tariff war".  Rather, I have been doi...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

How Can The Market Be at An All Time High and There Be A Freight Recession - Part II

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In my previous post I outlined why I believe freight is slowing.  Certain signals in the marketplace are telling us employment adds are decr...
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How Can The Market be at All time High and There Be a "Freight Recession"? - PART I

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The question posed in the title can be a perplexing problem and I am sure is of interest to both those who make a living running trucking co...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

J.B. Hunt as NVOCC

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I missed this one but I do think it is interesting the intermodal arm of J.B. Hunt is now a licensed NVOCC.  The article from the Journal of...
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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Is "Freight-Tech" the future or Has Uber and Lyft Killed the Dream?

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While I personally was unable to attend the annual Freightwaves Transparency19 conference this year I did watch a lot of the clips and I wa...
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Sunday, March 3, 2019

Provide Ritz-Carlton Service to Your Customers - It is Mostly Free

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I had such a great experience this weekend I had to, as always, relate it back to customer value chain fulfillment.  We decided to spend the...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Kraft, ZBB and the Art of Designing Supply Chains

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A lot has been written this weekend about what is happening at Kraft Heinz ( KHC ) and why they suddenly had to write down a huge portion of...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

The End of Sears Should Be Mourned by The Supply Chain Community

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If I described to you a retail entity which did the following what would you say? Took orders nationwide over multiple channels (whatever...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Capitalism without Capital and Why Amazon Was Able to Get To Scale

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I am currently reading a fantastic book titled Capitalism without Capital:  The Rise of The Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel and Stian ...

Heading to Edge 2018 - CSCMP

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I hope to connect with a lot of colleagues and meet new ones as we head to Nashville for the CSCMP Edge 2018 meeting.  For those who are ne...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Convinced Even More That Wal-Mart Should Be The Winner v. Amazon

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I have written many times about the idea of Walmart v. Amazon in the battle of retailing and e-commerce.  My basic thesis has always been ...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Macroeconomics are Supporting The Tight Freight Market (Macroeconomic Monday)

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I wanted to write a quick note about the tight freight market.  We all know it is tight and certainly there are no lack of free webinars ...

Will Disruption in The Inefficient Transportation Market Come From Within

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Many of you who have read my blog over the last many years know I am a bit critical of our industry.  Innovation has been very slow in comin...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Why Are People Using The Driver "Crunch" as An Excuse for Poor Service?

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Ok, no more webinars or explanations of how to be a "shipper of choice... please.  I think we all get it that there is a driver problem...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

When Does a Comment to Investors Become an Illegal "Signal" to Competitors?

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On July 18, 2015 I wrote a blog post entitled:   DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next?   At that time I had just read...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Thoughts on Retailers Buying XPO Logistics and What The Right Strategy Should Be

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I generally do not like to comment on something so speculative however Friday ended with a huge bang in the supply chain industry with Amazo...
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Saturday, October 7, 2017

Amazon Final Mile - It is All About The Brand

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I keep being asked why in the world would Amazon start their own home delivery / final mile service (See Amazon Logistics )?  Everyone quest...
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Friday, October 6, 2017

Why Do Supply Chain Transformations Fail - The Case for Change Management

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I have been thinking and reading a lot lately about supply chain transformations.  I have also been involved in many of them throughout my c...
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